Fire-kindler mold



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JAMES W. BURNS, OF SPRINGFIELD,OHIO.

FIRE-KINDLER MOLD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,369, dated May 23, 1882.

Application filed December S, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. BURNS, of Springfield, in the county of Clarke and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Kindler Molds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to making kindlers of rosin and sawdust or other suitable material; and itconsists in combining the parts ofa moldin g apparatus, as hereinafter described.

Another object of my invention is to improve the method of forming the kindlers in such manner that the kindlers will be of uniform SIZE.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view ofone of my improved kindlers. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of my improved mold for making the kindlers; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the kindlers as it appears when broken into fragments.

A represents the mold, B the followingblocks, and O the kindler, which is compressed by the molds and following-blocks into the form shown-that ofa Maltese cross. The chambers to a of the molds are of a depth about equal to twice the desired thickness of the kindlers, and the following-blocks are of a length equal to about one-half the depth of the chambers, and are secured to the strip of leather or other flexible material F.

In filling the chambers a with rosin and sawdust exactly the same quantity will not pass into each chamber,antl it thus becomes necessary that the several followers shall be able to accommodate themselves to the small differences in the thickness of the kindling material. This would not be possible with a rigid connection for the followers, and therefore I employ a connection or strip of leather or other flexible material.

Thecomposition ofthekindlers will bemainly of sawdustand resin or other suitable material. In forming the kindlers the molds are first placed upon the removable bottom board, E,

By making the kindler in this form it will be seen that passages e e are formed through the bodyof the kindler, which serve as draftpassages, which will cause the kindler to burn readily, and these passages divide the kindler, so that the projections c 0 may be easily broken of, leaving the central portion, d, and so that all the fragments will contain about the same amount of material, which is of advantage in case a whole kindler is not needed.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with a mold partitioned to form chambers a, of followers B, connected by flexible strip F, and having between them spaces, into which the partitions pass as the followers are pressed down, whereby a number of kindlers are formed at the same time, as described.

JAMES WILLIAM BURNS.

Witnesses:

W. L. LAFFERTY, W. It. BURNETT. 

